Whenever a job vacancy arises at Granta we will post details on this page. In addition, we usually advertise in the Bookseller and occasionally in the Guardian. Unfortunately, due to the high number of enquiries we receive, we cannot respond to speculative applications.

Financial Controller (Maternity Cover)

We are looking to appoint a driven, highly organised Financial Controller for a fixed term maternity cover of up to 13 months with an ideal start date of late May 2025. This role will include the responsibility of managing all aspects of financial reporting and management accounting, maintaining strong financial controls and supporting the senior leadership team with key financial insights. This role is hands on and ideal for someone who enjoys managing both day to day financial processes and strategic financial planning.

The Financial Controller (Maternity Cover) reports to the Managing Director of Granta Publications.

Key duties and responsibilities include:
– Preparation of regular management accounts, including all underlying journals and reconciliations, for both Granta Publications and Granta Trust
– Presentation of the results to managing directors at the monthly finance meetings
– Preparation for the annual audit and taking the lead dealing with the auditors
– Overseeing transactional processing and managing the finance assistant
– Business planning, including preparation and presentation of annual budgets, monitoring of performance against budgets and variance analysis
– Cash flow management to ensure sufficient funds are available to carry out Granta’s activities as well as managing relationships with banks and our business owner
– Assisting with the production of bi-annual author royalty statements and payment of royalties due
– Leading the finance related HR duties including payroll, pensions, HR contracts, insurance policies and employee benefits
– Managing the Granta IT department employee and having regular meetings with the office manager in order to assist on finance related office duties

Required qualities and skills:
• A university degree and a recognised professional accounting qualification
• Experience in a publishing house would be desirable, but is not essential
• Minimum of three years’ post qualification experience
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication and team-working skills, with the ability to build good relations, both internally and externally
• A self-starter, capable of working independently
• Capable of rapid and accurate turn around on a high workload and multiple tasks.

Granta offers a blend of home and office working, with three days in the office, two of which must be Tuesday and Thursday.

Granta is committed to employing a diverse workforce, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and with different kinds of life experience. We encourage those who are under-represented within the industry to consider applying for a role at our company.

Salary: £65,000-£70,000 based on experience
To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to [email protected].
The closing date for applications is 30 April 2025.

 

Publicity & Marketing Assistant

We are recruiting for a Publicity & Marketing Assistant to join our busy Campaigns team, providing administrative support to our publicists and Head of Marketing, and contributing creative ideas to our campaigns. This is a rare and exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for promoting books and who thrives when working as part of a small, dynamic team.

Responsibilities: 

• Monitoring and saving press clippings, as well as writing and sharing weekly publicity round-ups
• Handling email enquiries to the publicity inbox
• Drafting press releases and mailing lists for book and catalogue mailings
• Managing the prize databases, including submitting books, keeping records, researching new prizes and sharing news of nominations with wider teams
• Travel and accommodation bookings, plus accompanying authors to events and interviews as required
• Pitching to media (with guidance), meeting journalists and book festival programmers alongside the other publicists in the team
• Posting across Granta Books’ social media channels
• Managing the influencer database, and working to build and maintain relationships with Bookstagrammers, Booktubers and Substackers

Key Skills/Experience

• An enthusiasm for reading, a curiosity about what brings readers to books, and an interest in the media – both traditional and social 
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritise tasks in a busy environment 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to adapt communication styles to different audiences
• The ability to remain clear-headed under pressure, and to know when to use your own initiative 
• Confidence in and enthusiasm for building and maintaining relationships
• An eye for design – whether for press releases or social media materials – and why it matters. Experience of using Photoshop or Canva is an advantage

This is an entry-level position, but some experience of working in publishing, an office environment, or bookselling would be an advantage.

Reporting to the Deputy Publicity Director, this varied role offers a great opportunity to begin a career in publicity and/or marketing in literary publishing with the support of a friendly team.

Granta offers a blend of home and office working, with three days in the office, two of which must be Tuesday and Thursday. We are based in Holland Park in London.

Granta is committed to employing a diverse workforce, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and with different kinds of life experience. We encourage those who are under-represented within the industry to consider applying for a role at our company.

Salary £26,000 p.a. with 25 days holiday plus all public holidays.

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter explaining why you’d like to be Granta’s new Publicity & Marketing Assistant to [email protected].

Applications close at midnight on Sunday 4 May 2025.